“I had gotten the alert on my phone, and my wife sent me a notification that the tornado was on the way,” he recalled.

He pulled over to the side of the highway and attempted get out of his Jeep to lay in a ditch, but the wind was too strong and threw him like a "rag doll."

“I guess I was scared, but I was more in survival mode,” he said.

He thought he might be better protected from the elements if he crawled back near his vehicle.

“At that time, it felt like it would safer at the Jeep, having at least a little bit of a wind break because, even halfway down the ditch, I was still getting clobbered with the winds and the rain,” he said.

But the SUV went airborne.

“I saw the Jeep lift off the ground, and it went over my head, and my first thought was, 'This is just like in the movies,'” Seymour said.

The Jeep came crashing down, breaking Seymour’s shinbone, before it rolled further down the ditch.